Managerial Economics

Pascal Courty

University of Victoria

Pascal Courty pcourty@uvic.ca

TA Linda Wong lindaw@uvic.ca

Course outline

Slides Chap 1-3 Slides Chap 4-6 Slides Chap 7-8 Slides Chap 9-11 Game Theory Slides

Slides Chap 12-15

Market Experiment Discussion of Results Excel File

Discounting Excel File

Guessing Game File

Assignment Policies

Group Project

Problem set 1 Mini Case

Problem set 2 Mini Case

Problem set 3 Mini Case

Mock midterm

Midterm II Mini Case

Project grades and feedback

Tuesday: Discussion of HarbourAir/Helijet pricing policy

Group 1: Wilson/Sallows/Tustin/Erikson/Bousadda (Grade A)

Group2: Evans/Massot/Pynn/Dobravsky/Tremblay (Grade A-)

Group3: Jones/DeCotiis/Gatsi/Devahastin/StLaurent (Grade B+)

Wednesday: Discussion of hotel (boutique or lodging) industry

Group 4: Wang/Gao/Wang/Zhou/Cai/Lv (Grade A)

Group 5: Britz/Desmarais/Luscombe/Roll/Witschen (Grade A-)

Group 6: Hermasson Haight Hughes (Grade A)

Friday: Discussion of tablet/e-reader war

Group 7: Nikleva/Glover/Grimm/Bally (Grade A)

Group 8: Reiberber/Narang/Purdey/McNicol (Grade B+)

Group 9: Hamelin/Laidlaw/Mathews

Other Group Presentation

Group 10: Macdonald/Willich/Tan. The BC premium ice cream market. (Grade A)

Group 11: Manak/Young/Corry/Binning. Staples

Group 12: Russell/VanSittert/Keresztes/Said Air Canada Flight’s Pass (Grade A-)

Group 13: Justesen and Amos Canadian Breweries (Grade A-)

Group 14: Reynaud/Goddard/Colantino/Thomas ICBC Pricing Policies

Group 15: Kathuria/Cantelon/Peris/Golding Victoria Regional Transit System (Grade A)